Dax enters tie-up with Israeli co offer routing solutions

Dax Networks has entered into a tie-up with Israel based Telco Systems to
offer high capacity-carrier class routing solutions in India. The products will
be available under the brand Dax Telco Systems, which will be targeted at the
telecom, corporate and the enterprise segments.

According to Sujit Singh, Country Manger, Dax Netwo-rks, as a result of this
tie up the company, which till now has been addressing the edge and distribution
levels in networ-king, will be addressing the entire gamut of networking.
"Switching, Cabling and Rout-ing (SCR) happens to be the core of networking
where we were not present till now. But with this recent tie up, we have moved
towards the core, with more focus on mature and high value networking," he
added.

Dax is targeting revenue of Rs 100 crore by 2006. For the coming financial
year, Dax expects that two-thirds of its revenue will be coming from SCR. Of the
Rs 4,000 crore Indian networking market, the share of SCR stands at Rs 1,500
crore. Dax already commands a two percent market share in the SCR segment with
its tie-up with China based Maipu for its routing product.

"But by 2007 we expect to grab 10 percent of the SCR market share.
Initially we were providing SCR solutions in piece meal, which constituted 47
percent of our revenue. Post tie up, it will grow to up to 67 percent,"
informed Singh.

In yet another move, Dax is set to roll out Wi Max (World-wide
Interoperability for Micro-wave Access) by the end of next quarter. Though not
yet legali-zed in India, Singh said that the company is ready with it since it
does not want to be left behind in any area of networking.

Wi Max, which is based on the new IEEE 802.16 standard, is said to answer all
the bottle-necks of Wi-Fi or WLAN. "Tho-ugh WLAN promises shared data rates
of upto 11 MBPS but in reality it delivers only 4.5 M bit/sec. The outdoor
distance covered by Wi-Fi is 20 kms, whereas Wi Max is a non line-of-sight
technology, which cou-nters the bottleneck of speed."

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